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Captain Oblivious posted:QC has always been spinning its wheel. Spinning its wheels is the whole entire point of QC. There’s not supposed to be any friction, you are just supposed to consume. Consume the comfortable and unthreatening romcom vibes like the content piggy you are! Wielder of Lattes Seeker of Bands King of TEH Maker of Singularities Wheel Spinning Lord QUESTION SIX BILLION CONTENTS don't wear it out
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Your browser has a history feature though, no?
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Sep 29, 2023 12:48
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QC is set before the Butlerian Jihad so it's spinning its wheels within wheels.
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Sep 29, 2023 16:14
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The worst QC character continues to get even worster.
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Safari Disco Lion posted:The worst QC character continues to get even worster. Hannelore is apparently now applying that Hulk Hogan level spray on tan.
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I didn't expect QC of all places to be giving a real good lesson on how to help someone else who's having a panic attack.
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Oct 20, 2023 19:04
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I didn't expect QC of all places to be giving a real good lesson on how to help someone else who's having a panic attack.
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Hostile V posted:Considering Jeph's own experiences with panic attacks it makes sense. I was going to say, the way he has characters act often feels like his own lived in experiences, especially when we get to mental health issues.
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Ayo continues to be uncomfortably real, including the likely recontextualization of her behavior into "I have to be fun or everyone will hate me, nobody will ever want to deal with me having problems and bad feelings."
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I've never, to my knowledge, had a panic attack, but Ayo's whole... thing is uncomfortably reminiscent of my own deal with college and untreated ADHD.
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She honestly feels like a kinda... better done Hanalore? Like, I don't hate Hanners, but her whole thing is so extreme it's not relatable. Ayo's at least in the realm of somebody I could concieve of knowing.
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Hostile V posted:Considering Jeph's own experiences with panic attacks it makes sense. It's dealt with quite a few things, but nothing like this amount of detail. I quite like it.
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I just wish it was literally any already existing character and not someone who was JUST introduced and whose only functions in the story so far has been "instantly latches onto two of the absolute worst characters in QC, and then has a panic attack". I have no emotional investment in her at all.
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It does not help that what characterization she has gotten prior was both annoying and infantilizing. Haha she’s just an idiot baby person who doesn’t know what words mean!
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Captain Oblivious posted:Haha she’s just an idiot baby person who doesn’t know what words mean!
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I think we all know there isn't. JJ's standard MO when introducing his latest Quirky Girl idea is to write like 5-10 strips of them having the most generic personality possible, then veer off into some random other direction of how they're going to be a different Quirky Girl from all the other Quirky Girls. Ayo went from "in a little bit of a bad place but took to Hannelore's caregiver type personality" to "instantly became co-dependent on Hannelore and is a complete mess of a person in literally every way" within a month. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes there's more of a tonal whiplash than others. Remember the "the girl at the other coffee place sexually harasses Elliott" bit? QC has always and will probably always feel like JJ is writing largely by the seat of his pants with only very general and vague outlines for plot lines and new characters planned out at any given time. It's the nature of these slice of life, meandering, long term comics. Great for giving something like this a long, easily digestible shelf life. Bad for ever getting above a very baseline level of interesting or good.
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RIP Harpoon girl.
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Mostly it just kind of triggers my sense for "honestly some people actually do need a boot in their rear end and being relentlessly nice can be the opposite of helpful". Like, obviously the panic attack is the wrong time to do this, but a lot of her problems would never have come up if the university hadn't ignored the fact that one of their scholarship students never actually showed up.
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SlothfulCobra posted:RIP Harpoon girl. I’m so glad harpoon girl is dead
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Sluggt Freelance actually had a really big, very satisfying reveal payoff today. I liked it. He does a good job recontextualizing chapter titles, it's something he does a lot that I appreciate!
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One of the things I feel Sluggy Freelance deserves credit for doing, and I kind of wish more things did, was "when someone shows up, there is a link to their prior appearance to contextualize it." The problem is that this then leads to more "who the gently caress is that" links, since the strip linked to usually only has a vague allusion or whatever, so you have to do even more archive diving, but the one for "who is this lich looking dude" was, at least, very straightforward. As long as you remember the general deal for Mohkadun, anyway.
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That makes me think: is General Protection Fault still running? ...oh. It looks exactly the same. 
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Wow. I don't think I've even heard of that comic before, but it's still jarring to see it with "2023" at the bottom.
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GlyphGryph posted:Sluggt Freelance actually had a really big, very satisfying reveal payoff today. I liked it. He does a good job recontextualizing chapter titles, it's something he does a lot that I appreciate! I liked it too. And I appreciate the work being done to tie a bunch of these side plots together, it cant be easy in this thing.
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Does her hair get taller when she feels threatened?
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Tiger, Tiger is updating again and it's wonderful.
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I understand why Girl Genius is doing a slow burn (heh) with the introduction to the Polar Lords, and it's neat that they seem to be pretty different from all the other sparks and monsters the comics have shown so far, but you'd think that all the Wulfenbach troops would know a thing or two about how the Polar Lords operate since Gil fought them off a while back. I guess this is going to be one of those things that flows much better reading back later,
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There's two hefty bundles going on at itch.io right now, one for PCRF : https://itch.io/b/2154/comics-for-gazas-children and the other by the Cartoonist Coop: https://itch.io/b/2129/the-cartoonist-co-op-showcase-bundle, and they're both full of great comics.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I understand why Girl Genius is doing a slow burn (heh) with the introduction to the Polar Lords, and it's neat that they seem to be pretty different from all the other sparks and monsters the comics have shown so far, but you'd think that all the Wulfenbach troops would know a thing or two about how the Polar Lords operate since Gil fought them off a while back. What they're doing now is new. This time they're bringing their own weather with them. Much of what they had couldn't function this far south earlier. Also, when they attacked, a lot of their troops surrendered and asked for asylum, and if they're now revenants, they won't do that.
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Not exactly a webcomic, but as a fan of Gigidigi's work on Cucumber Quest... https://gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov (A visual novel with first part releasing on Dec 15)
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About halfway through reading Invincible. I'm doubtful the show will get this far in my lifetime, but I'm really looking forward to seeing them grapple Dinosaurus. "Mark gets First Reformed'ed and teams up with a hyperintelligent talking ecoterrorist dinosaur" goes insanely hard in the paint and also seems like suicide to try to adapt EDIT: Oops wrong thread. Uhhh KC Green is still doing stuff that's pretty neat mutantIke fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Nov 30, 2023 |
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Elysiume posted:That makes me think: is General Protection Fault still running? It's impressive how Darlington not only managed to stop improving his art style after like, 2004, but also functionally abandoned the entire core concept of the strip half a decade after that to write pure science fiction instead after working his way up to it, and it's still working out for him as a full-time gig. I tried to catch up on GPF a few months ago with a full re-read and I got to the start of the third mega-arc and was just too burned out on it to continue. On the opposite spectrum of "stopped improving art and storytelling a few years in", it's a shame that Howard Tayler got a gnarly case of COVID early on and retired as a result instead of starting up that new story in the Schlock Mercenary universe. I was really excited to see what he'd do without having to work in the constraints of a 20-year-long arc with a relatively stable ensemble cast.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Catching up with Evan Dahm's new comic, 3rd Voice, really digging it so far. I'm always a sucker for post-apoc stuff. It's been many moons since my last post but I would like to say that 3rd Voice is Very Good, highly recommend.
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mutantIke posted:About halfway through reading Invincible. I'm doubtful the show will get this far in my lifetime, but I'm really looking forward to seeing them grapple Dinosaurus. "Mark gets First Reformed'ed and teams up with a hyperintelligent talking ecoterrorist dinosaur" goes insanely hard in the paint and also seems like suicide to try to adapt
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QC Chat: I'm honestly glad that Applebloom is finally getting someone who has more than a disaffected snark to her bullshit. Marten being nice to her was obviously something she needed in one respect, but Faye reaching into her chest and pulling out her still-beating heart Mortal Kombat style is also something she desperately needs
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